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NARROW FABRIC Filed Jan. 24. 1956 ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 2, 1938 PATENT OFFICE aizasss Nsnaow Panaro Joseph W. Stark, New York,

General Ribbon Mills, llnc., Catasauqua, corporation of Delaware N. Y., assigner to Pa., a

Application January 24, 1936, Serial No. 60,596

lll. Claims.

The present invention relates to narrow fabrics such as ribbons, strips, tapes, or bands, and more particularly, to such fabrics provided with suitable ornamentation. In its more specic aspect,

'5 the invention is concerned primarily with ornamental ribbons for use in tying packages, and `ifor ornamenting wrapped and unwrapped articies although the ribbons may be used generally for any well known purpose.

Heretofore, woven ribbons have been ornamented by introducing a design during the weaving of the ribbon, usually by jacquard apparatus in the process of weaving, or by printing a suitable design upon a surface of the ribbon. The process of ornamentingpribbons in which jacquard appatl'atusl is utilized is so expensive that the use of such process for the manufacture of ornamental tying ribbons is greatly limited if not prohibitive. One object of the invention, therefore, is to obviate the necessity for utilizing the jacquard method of manufacturing ornamental ribbons. y

Woven ribbons carrying ornamentation printed thereon are subject to the disadvantage that it is very diiliculhii not impossible, to obtain a sharply defined design on the ribbon surface.

Another object oi.' the present invention, therefore, is to ornament a plain woven ribbon without printing the design or ornamentation on the ribbon surface.

Open mesh or loosely woven ribbons cannot be satisfactorily ornamented either by method of weaving the design, as bythe jacquard apparatus, or by printing, because the woven threads V do not 'remain in iixedposition and because the threads are frequently too far apart to clearly delineate the design either printed or woven.

A further object'of the present invention is to facilitate the ornamentation of ribbons of the loosely woven or open mesh types.

Another object of the invention is to provide a ribbon which possesses varying flexibility in different portions of the width thereof.

A yet further object oi the invention is generally to improve the art of ornamental woven ribbons.

'Ihe above objects of the invention and other objects ancillary thereto will best be understood from the following description considered in connection with the accompanying drawing forming a part of the present specification.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a perspective View of a piece of ribbon embodying one form of the present invention;

(el. 15e-41) FiFigl'. 2 is a sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 3 is a perspective View of a piece of ribbon embodying another form oi the invention;

Flg. i is a sectional view on the line t-i of 5 Fig.

l Fig. 5 is a fragmentary plan view of a piece of ribbon constituting anotheriorm oi the invention.

Referring to the drawing in detail, and first 10 to Figs. 1 and 2, there is shown a ribbon ill which comprises a strip i2 of suitable woven textile ribbon material carrying superposed thereon relatively narrow spaced strips lt provided with any suitable ornamental design. As here shown, the 15 strip l2 is provided with selvage edges i6 and the strips i4 are disposed adjacent said edges. The ornamental strips i6 are preferably made of regenerated cellulose which is known in the trade as Cel1ophane. Other suitable non-woven non- 20 fibrous cellulosic material. such as paper, or nonfibrous cellulosic materials derived from cellulose esters and cellulose ethers and which can be bonded to the textile layer it without stitching, as by an adhesive, with or without the ap- 25 plication of heat, or byo rendering the material sticky or tacky by means of a solvent therefor, may be used.

In the form of the invention illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, the strips it are made of regen- 30 erated cellulose, preferably Cellophane Said regenerated cellulosic strips are of the opaque type and may be of any suitable color. 'Ihe exposed surfaces of said strips are provided with a suitable surface design printed thereon in any 35 desired color or combination of colors. Said strips lli, besides constituting ornamentation for the strip i2, to form thev ornamental ribbon ill, also serve to impart stiffness to the marginal edge portions of said ribbon, while substantially 40 unaffecting the intermediate body portion of the ribbon. By thus stiiening the marginal edge portions of the ribbon, without correspondingly stiifening the intermediate portions thereof, the ribbon can be readily tied into a bow which re- 45 tains its shape much better than doesa bow made of ordinary ribbon. i

In the form of the invention illustrated in Figs.

3 and 4,- the ribbon 2B is similar to the ribbon lil, except that a single strip 22 of non-nbrous 50 cellulosic material is disposed centrally of the woven textile strip 2li. Also, in this form of the invention, the strip 22 is transparent and the design, indicated generaliy by the reference numeral 26, is printed on the inner surface of the strip 32. The design is thus visible at both sides of the ribbon, through the body of the transparent strip at one side of the ribbon, and at the other side of the ribbon through the openings in the fabric strip.

In making the ribbon in accordance with the present invention, the non-fibrous strips are first printed or otherwise ornamented and subsequently attached to the textile strip as described above. In lieu of printing a design on the cellulosic strips or in addition to the design imprinted thereon, said cellulosic strips may be of one or more colors which contrast with the color of the textile strip. Also a plurality of the cellulosic strips, whether printed or colored, mayvary in color whereby to obtain contrasting color effects between the several cellulosic strips themselves as well as between them and the textile strip. It is also within the scope of the present invention to apply one or more colored or ornamented cellulosic strips to both sides of the textile strip, and it will be further understood that where a plurality of cellulosic strips are applied to either one or both sides of the textile strip, the former may be of different widths. Where the cellulosic strips are applied some to one side and some to the other side of the textile strip, it is contemplated that in certain instances it would be desirable to have cellulosic strips on one side of the fabric overlie cellulosic strips on the opposite side of the fabric. In other instances the cellulosic strips on one side would be spaced intermediate of the cellulosic strips on the other side of the textile fabric, particularly where the textile strip is of open mesh fabric which permits the strip on one side oi.' the fabric to be visible at the other side thereof. Accordingly, it will be apparent that it is possible to obtain a wide variety of ornamentation for ribbons by using, at the most, only a few different textile strips, and even when utilizing a woven textile strip of one character or color a practically unlimited variety of ornamentation may be obtained by varying the ornamentation on the non-fibrous strips.

It is thus seen that the above described ribbons are well adapted to accomplish the several objects of the present invention. It will be understood, however, that certain changes and omissions may be made in the forms of the invention herein illustrated without departing from the essential requirements of the ribbon structure, and that the invention may be embodied in other forms. Therefore, I do not wish to be limited precisely to the present disclosure, except as may be required by the appended claims and prior art.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A ribbon comprising a strip of textile material and a narrower strip of non-woven non-fibrous material bonded together in superposed face to face relation, said non-fibrous strip being disposed entirely inwardly of the side edges of said textile strip and extending longitudinally thereof, said strip of non-fibrous material having a surface design printed thereon for ornamenting the ribbon, said ribbon being flexible and sufficiently narrow to be tied into a knot or bow.

2. A ribbon comprising a strip of textile ma- 'terial and a narrower strip of transparent nonbrous cellulosic material bonded together in superposed face to face relation and disposed entirely inwardly of the side edges of said textile strip, said transparent strip having a printed inner surface visible throughits body portion, said ribbon being flexible and sufficiently narrow to be tied into a knot or bow.

3. A ribbon comprising a plurality of strips extending longitudinally of the ribbon in superposed face to face relation, one of said strips consisting of textile material and another of said strips consisting of non-woven non-fibrous material bonded to said textile strip, said nonfibrous strip being substantially narrower than said textile strip and extending longitudinally thereof entirely inwardly of the side edges of said textile strip whereby the stiffness of said ribbon varies in the width thereof, said ribbon being flexible longitudinally and laterally for tying the same into a knot or bow.

4. A ribbon comprising a strip of textile material and two spaced strips of non-woven nonflbrous material secured to said textile strip in face to face relation adjacent and entirely inwardly of the side edges thereof whereby said ribbon is more flexible in its intermediate portion than in its marginal edge portions, said ribbon being flexible and sufficiently narrow to be tied into a bow or knot.

5. A ribbon comprising a strip of textile material and a narrower strip of non-woven nonfibrous material secured to said textile strip in face to face relation and extending longitudinally in spaced relation to the side edges of the latter whereby said ribbon is more flexible in its marginal edge portions than in an intermediate portion thereof, said ribbon being flexible and sufficiently narrow to be tied into a bow or knot.

' 6. A ribbon comprising a strip of open-mesh l fabric and a narrower strip of non-fibrous cellulosic material secured to said fabric strip in face to face relation entirely inwardly of the side edges of said fabric strip and carrying an ornamental design printed thereon, said ribbon being flexible and sufficiently narrow to be tied into a bow or knot.

'7. A ribbon comprising a woven textile strip and a non-woven strip of transparent Cellophane adhesively united together in face to face relation, said non-woven strip beingvnarrower than said woven strip, extending longitudinally of the latter and disposed entirely inwardly of the side edges of said woven strip, and carrying a design on its inner surface visible through its body portion for ornamenting the ribbon, said ribbon being flexible laterally and longitudinally for tying the same into a knot or bow.

8. A ribbon comprising an open-mesh woven strip and a strip of Cellophane united together in face to face relation, said Cellophane strip being narrower than said woven strip and disposed entirely inwardly of the side edges thereof, extending longitudinally of the latter, and carrying a surface design for ornamenting the ribbon, said ribbon being flexible laterally and longitudinally for tying the same into a knot or bow.

9. A ribbon comprising an open-mesh woven strip and a non-wovenstrip of transparent regenerated cellulose united together in face to face relation, said non-woven lstrip being narrower than said woven strip, extending longitudinally of the latter and disposed entirely inwardly of the side edges thereof,` and carrying a design on its inner surface visible through its body portion for ornamenting the ribbon. said ribbon being ilexble laterallyand longitudinally for tying the same into a knot or bow.

10. A ribbon comprising a strip of textile material and a plurality of spaced strips of nonilbrous cellulosic material superposed in face to face relation on said strip of textile material, said strips being disposed entirely inwardly of the side edges of said material and secured thereto, said ribbon being flexible laterally and longitudinally for tying the same into a knot or bow.

11. Afribbon comprising a Woven textile strip having selvage edges and a non-woven strip of non-fibrous material secured in superposed face to face relation on said textile strip extending longitudinally thereof between said selvage edges and having a surface design, said non-woven strip being narrower than said woven strip but sufdciently wide to constitute at least the major ornamental element of the ribbon.`

JOSEPH W. STARK. 

